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  • Director, Global Practices,U.S. Public Sector, Enterprise Services, Hewlett- Packard Company Stacy Cleveland is the Director of the Workload and Cloud Solution Practice, and leads the seven regional practices for the U.S. Public Sector, HP Enterprise…

    May 19, 2014
  • Senior Director, Cloud Solutions Mr. Whitham is a 25 year veteran of federal government contracting, primarily supporting telecommunications and IT. He has spent the last eight years focusing on managed hosting and cloud computing. Prior…

    May 19, 2014
  • Deputy Director, Office of the Chief Information Officer Mr. Gupta is NGA’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO), located at its Springfield, Virginia campus. The CIO is responsible for providing leadership, policy, guidance and governance across…

    May 19, 2014
  • The Pentagon has revealed the U.S. military fired or disciplined nearly 500 workers for sexual harassment. In a 12-month period, and nearly 13 percent of the complaints filed involved repeat offenders. The report on May 15th was the first such report on sexual harassment. It says there were 1,366 reports in the last year.

    May 19, 2014
  • A drive to push federal agencies to adopt cloud computing is earning a GSA employee some prestigious recognition. Sonny Hashmi is the acting chief information officer at the General Services Administration. He's a finalist for one of this year's Service to America Medals in the Management Excellence category, which is presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.

    May 16, 2014
  • The Defense Health Agency awards a $71 million bridge contract to support electronic health records at the DoD.

    May 16, 2014
  • This week AFGE's "Inside Government" explores LGBT employee issues in the federal workplace with Frank Fragomene, an EEO specialist and attorney from the AFGE Women's and Fair Practices Department; Sasha Buchert, a staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center; and, Darren Phelps, the AFL-CIO executive director of Pride at Work. Cheryl Eliano, the AFGE local 1920 president, also joins the program and discusses her experience during both of the shootings at Fort Hood.

    May 16, 2014
  • Health IT public policy initiatives are transforming how quality patient care is delivered and reimbursed at an unprecedented pace. The Conference will focus on realizing the value of health IT through the discussion of critical issues and solutions the healthcare sector is currently facing related to federal health IT policy and healthcare reform, clinical health IT implementation and Meaningful Use initiatives, as well as evolving financial and administrative trends.

    May 15, 2014
  • The Pentagon says almost 300 Marines have been moved to a naval air station in Sicily in response to the growing unrest in Africa. There is trouble in Sudan, the Central African Republic, Libya and Nigeria. The U.S. is using surveillance drones in the search for the kidnapped Nigerian girls. Officials say at least one Global Hawk surveillance drone is in use, in addition to manned MC-12 aircraft.

    May 14, 2014
  • Modernization and meeting customer need are critical to remaining relevant. Acquisition Operations Director Jim Ghiloni and Schedule 70 Director Kay Ely discuss the agency's ongoing strategy on Agency of the Month.

    May 14, 2014
  • The Pentagon is using drones to help search in northeastern Nigeria for school girls kidnapped by the terror group Boko Haram, although they will not call them drones. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren explains, "as a general rule we don't discuss our use of unmanned aircraft." He indicates there are security concerns, continuing, "there are sensitivities surrounding where they are based out of." Warren says they are being used to collect intelligence and conduct surveillance.

    May 14, 2014